Review of The Lion King (2019) by Casadelrob — 20 Jul 2019
Meh. The CGI was amazing but the movie felt really flat and by comparison to the original just did nothing.
If you have seen Lion King when it was originally in theaters, perhaps multiple times because it was so amazing, Skip this re-do. It won’t ruin your memories of the animation, but it will do nothing for you past the initial wow of the first few minutes of CGI.
The songs felt flat, the characters (albeit real life if you will) felt even less relatable and lovable as their cartoon counterparts.
It just felt all in all flat to me. The best parts were a few clever rewrites on lines. Otherwise it was like watching James Earl Jones again as Mufassa dubbed over a National Geographic documentary.
I wish if they were going to do a full blown script repeat everyone would have returned. Heck, they may as well have just kept the original voice track and dubbed it over. It was meh. For me, just meh, at best.
This review of The Lion King (2019) was written by Casadelrob on 20 Jul 2019.
The Lion King has generally received positive reviews.
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